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Before he took off again for Washington he had time for a long visit with his old friend and wartime military secretary, Frank McCarthy, now assistant to Board Chairman Byron Price of the Motion Picture Association of America...
...thinks gigantically," said Lord Byron to Leigh Hunt. "If thought were light, and our planet visible by it, and space were time, the next ages would see us coming by a little ray, made up of such minds." A few days later their friend Percy Bysshe Shelley, aged 29, vanished with his fated little sailboat into a sultry Mediterranean storm. The next ages have been only fitfully aware of Shelley as a gigantic thinker. And Blunden's biography scarcely supports that description; but it shows the poetry maturing with the man: eloquent, fervorous, audacious, imaginative...
Child of Poetry. After Harriet's death, Shelley devoted himself to his poetry in Hampstead, in Leigh Hunt's cottage, where young Keats was a fellow visitor, and in Geneva, where the glamorous Lord Byron was a neighbor. The Napoleonic Wars were over; the long golden age of travel on the Continent had begun. Shelley's household abroad included not only Mary, whom he married, but her sister, Claire Claremont, one of Byron's cast-off mistresses. His scandalous behavior shocked London, and he never returned to the city after 1818, later writing stanzas beginning "Hell...
When blatant Bill Jack and his quiet partner Ralph M. Heintz peddled their war baby last spring to Manhattan engineer B. C. Milner Jr. and Byron C. Foy, onetime vice president of Chrysler Corp., they got 1) roughly $8 million in cash and stock, 2) five-year contracts at $40,000 a year, 3) promises to retain their employe program...
Making Things Clear. Bill Jack soon exploded his resentment in Cleveland's newspapers. So the board of directors decided that Jack was to go on leave, with Board Chairman Byron Foy taking over his job. The board also said that "Mr. Jack . . . wishes to make clear that there is no disagreement whatsoever over the personnel policies...